What started off as a pleasant outing in Cape Town, South Africa, nearly turned deadly for Colombian singer Shakira. But the singer took to her Facebook page to recount the details of a traumatic encounter she had with a sea lion while she was trying to take a photo of it with her Blackberry.

A sea lion has reportedly attacked Colombian pop star Shakira. According to her Facebook page, the singer was trying to take a photograph of herself with some animals in Cape Town, South Africa, when a sea lion mistook her Blackberry for a fish. Unimpressed by her "baby voices" which Shakira was using to communicate, it then jumped out of the water and roared at the immobile pop star before attempting to bite her. It jumped out of the water so fast and impetuously that it got about one foot away from her, looked her in the eye, roared in fury and tried to bite her. She wrote on her facebook saying "I was paralyzed by fear and couldn't move, I just kept eye contact with it while my brother ‘Super Tony' jumped over me and literally saved my life, taking me away from the beast."

Sea lions usually interact well with humans unless provoked.